Julio Peralta-Paulino

 

Absquatulated
for Ms. Casasnova

a person love-locked is stealing
what else keeps the image?
(upon disorder roads we shake
our half exlusive deals...
what we wanted in some especially yesterday
is not what we want in this
involvement now)
a deal is a deal
what are you dealing
inside
some dream...there is an orange glimmer;
hope
indeed...
the flowers in perfect harmony
were singing with the power of
the impossible
where no one heard another rainbow...
a person
before
a mirror
is not seeing --
the image is
not
what keeps.

 

Bolt

steadfast lingo
the unquestioning explicit
of an urgent utensil
a wing flexing vernacular
in reflex texture
in unrelenting scripture
her affection so uncalculated
painted or planted
seeds in ground pages
melody or magic
the jargon was flying

 

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in a black & white dream
we are shades of grey

you & i transformed
upon this screen

moving with the ease of smoke
in a breeze (our hands...

--this wind called life--
...yes they have touched